Re: Kill file Fred Bloggs, end the abuse!

From: John Woodgate (jmw_at_jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk)
Date: 09/05/04


Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:29:05 +0100

I read in sci.electronics.design that Tony Williams
<tonyw@ledelec.demon.co.uk> wrote (in <4ce992acc8tonyw@ledelec.demon.co.
uk>) about 'Kill file Fred Bloggs, end the abuse!', on Sun, 5 Sep 2004:

> -thwaite apparently evolved from being a clearing (of land)
> to meaning a settlement. As you say, Norse rather than Danish.

Well, my Danish colleagues often claim to be 'Wikings'.

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